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Grace Mulholland of Freehold was selected as a Hokie ambassador for Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. Hokie ambassadors primarily provide tours for prospective undergraduate students and highlight the school’s best qualities. Grace was chosen to represent Virginia Tech because of her interest in the community and her love of her school and campus. Louis Johnson of…
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Schools may consider a stricter dress code
HOWELL — Superintendent of Schools Enid Golden said the initial reaction to her mention of the possibility of implementing clothing guidelines for pupils in the Howell K-8 School District was favorable. Golden raised the subject at a recent meeting of the Howell Board of Education’s community relations committee. She said a small group of residents…
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Here’s your Boy Scout knife, and here are the handcuffs
CODA GREG BEAN There’s an episode of my old favorite television show “MacGyver,” where a small-town cop arrests MacGyver for carrying his Swiss Army knife. The cop is just throwing his weight around, and he charges our hero with carrying a concealed weapon or something equally as bogus, puts him in handcuffs and hauls him…
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Girls basketball fails to make cut
BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer HOWELL — Interscholastic girls basketball will not be offered at Howell’s three middle schools this winter. Participation levels did not meet the minimum requirement (15 players) established by the Howell Police Athletic League (PAL), which is running the sports programs under a contract it was awarded by the Howell K-8…
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State turns its back on affordable housing
I cannot tell you the number of hours that I and others have spent in Trenton and at meetings concerning affordable housing. As a past chairman and member of the Howell Planning Board, it had been very difficult to try to reach the necessary goals on affordable housing mandated by the state of New Jersey.…
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Union leaders fail rank and file
GUEST COLUMN JOSEPH WALDMAN In the 1973 movie “Sleeper,” Woody Allen’s character awoke in the year 2173 to find out the United States had been destroyed when a man named Albert Shanker got a hold of a nuclear warhead. For those who do not know of him, Albert Shanker was the leader of the United…
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When the engine blows, and it’s 20 below
CODA GREG BEAN I’ve been getting a real kick out of those “You always remember your first Subaru” ads, with lots of wistful people fondly remembering things that happened in their cars. There’s one with a young guy looking into the backseat of his Subaru, and you get an idea what he’s remembering, but the…
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Romance and love are not reserved only for the young
GIRL TALK CLARE MARIE CELANO Ioften wonder what young people think of us over-50 crowd who are involved in romantic relationships. I know when I was younger when someone older had managed to find a companion, I’d think to myself, “Oh, isn’t that sweet.” At that time, however, I was imagining a kind of relationship…
